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Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1878-03-25

Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1878-03-25 page 1

Ma ni VOL. XXXIX, COLUMBUS, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1878. NO. 71, si.i SIEBEHT . & LILLET, BLANK BOOK M INDFACTURERS. PrinterH.HInderH, Stationer! and Legal Blank Publisher. BOOK BINDING 0 entry Daeriptim.by the Edition or otnote voum. Open Haass Building (Up Stairs), p4 COLUMBUS. ISAIAH PlLLABS. BODNIT FOOS, PILLARS & FOOS, Attorneys-at-Law, Room Mo. 0, Pioneer Block, fobs tltf w4t COLTJHBUS, OHIO, SPRING AND SUMMER Woolens GEO. T. DUVALL, Merchant Tailor ! 157 V OUT If HIGH ST. auTSly WALL PAPERS ! FOR THE SEASON OF 1878! In addition to the regular Hues, we have tbia spring made a SPECIALTY Of the fine goodi raanuf etured by Ihe famous hous) of FR. W40K & CO. The-e goods compete successfully with the finest !ng ish Papers in the EN0LI3H MARKET, and ae the most popular made ia this country. GEO. W.TlEASON, 09 SOUTH HIGH ST., sep2t6mlp Onnnntre file I'anllol. jjioSiatconrnaL Oil; Ulan, I'rurl mill 4 Impel M. . tOMF-T. A. W. TBANCIHCO. COMLY & FRANCISCO, PUBMBllKtlS AK1I PBOPHIETOUS. 1. W. FKAKCISCO, - (leneral Manager LEBIoLATlVE SUMMARY. General Anaeiublj. March 23. Senate Bills introduced: Authorizing a tax levy io Cincinnati for an astronomical observatory; appointing an assistant prosecuting attorney for Lucas county; draining roads in Marion county Resolutions adopted: Authorizing arms and ammunition for the Marietta reunion; to investigate the seating at the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb Bills passed: Improving ditches in V, ood county; authorizing Newark to levy an additional tin; allowing Pomeroy to sell a cemetery; relieving D. V. Dingenou and H..H. Sprague, of Shelby county; au-thorizing Olmatead, Cuyahoga county, to irect infirmary buildings; authorizing Brown county to build connecting turnpikes; authorizing Mdrshallvillc, Wayne county, to protect itself against firo. Home Bills passed: Authorizing Middle-town, Butler county, to light streets and public buildings by contract; allowing Mc-Connelsville to transfer fund'; changiog the name of the Hucgerbuebler family, of Franklin county, to Buehler Messrs. Thorp, Dalzell and Greene presented a communication, declining to serve longer on the Soldiers Orphans' Home committee under the present Chairman Mr. O'Connor, whereupon that gentleman tendered 'his re slgnation, and all the requests were granted by the Bouse Indication for Tennessee and the Ohio Valley Cisar or partiy cloudy weather, cold, northerly winds and rising barometer, followed at west station! by winds veering to warmer southerly, and falling barometer. Gold cloeed in New York Saturday at 101 i. ntewark Hole,. Newark, March 24. To the Editor of the Ohio State Journal : The pair of babies left on the doorsteps of a Church in Somersett, a night or two since are, as suspected by the authorities of that place, Newarkers. The wealth of the parents as reported is a mistake, it ia not fabulous. The father, a tender youth, has not yet got beyond the sphere of chambermaid in a livery stable, nor the mother above that of a help in a private family, with a very indifferent moral character. When the matter is fully adjusted the Licking County Infirmary will have its boarders increased two. Dick's lecture on temperance and gambling last night drew like a fly blister. The Opera House was pieity well filled with a very respectable audience of ladies and gentlemen curious to hear what Dick had to otter in any way reformatory. Hia speech, like some of those the Immortal J. N. Bays he has made, waB moving. Those who did not move out were compelled to listen to slang which no one of the audience understood except the gamblers present. A lecture from Joe Cook now can't be said to be out of order, after which the temperance movement in Newark will be in shape to retire for repairs.Legislators, in their zeal to further the interests of the general public, sometimes make mistakes. The bill to prevent net fishing in the streams and reservoirs of Ohio now pending in the Legislature, if passed, will give general satisfaction and result in treat good. An amendment to the bill, offered by Mr. Tucker, to prevent hook Sailing during a certain period of the year is, to say the leaBt of it, nonsensical and in no way a protection. If the gentleman will take the trouble to post himself. He will learn that game fish seldom take the hook while on their spawn beds. Put a step to the use of nete,which manner of fishing is especially destructive to the young fry, and it will not be long until this excellent article of diet will become abundant everywhere. BY TELEGRAPH TO THS OHIO STATS JOVBNAL WASHINGTON. An Interview with Secretary Schurz on the Timber Question. The Rights and Pownrs of the Government. The Appropriation for the Discov- eryjand Prosf cation of Depredators Insufficient. Charges Against 1 Com ml h- Bioner ftpear, of the Patent Ufllce. Amended Regulation for the Trans mission of Printed Matter. SECRETARY 8CHORZ INTERVIEWED, Washington. March 24 Secrelarv Schurz, in an interview upon the recent action of the Senate on the matter of tim ber depredations, said : The appropria tion for the discovery and prosecution of timber depredators reduced, aa it has been to $5000 by the Senate, will, under the present circumstances, not be sufficient to prepare the necessary testimony for the trial or the many cases now impending in me ainerent stales, There are many suitB still pending in Mississippi, Mich : VU!- a: r t ieui. iBiiuuriu, juiuucHum nuu u'.,uini- ana, and seventeen indictments in Florida and tifteen in California. In many in stances it will be necessary, ii order to complete the testimony, to employ surveying parties to retrace the lines where the depredations have been committed, so as to enable the Government to show authoritatively the particular subdivision of the public lands upon whicn limner has been cut, and this costs money. As the preparation of this testimony is the most imperative thing to be done at present, we shall have to apply the money appropriated to that purpose, and we shall be obliged to abandon the investigation of depredations and their prosecution in all other localities. I his is rather understating than overstating the case. I have considered it, and do now consider it my duty as an officer of the Government to execute the law?, By making an appropriation at all for the prosecution of timber depredations, Congress recognized the principle that the laws in that respect should be executed, but if Congress makes that ap propriation so small as to restrict me to a very limited sphere of action, such an act will be considered as virtually a proclam ation to the timber depredators in all the length and breadth of the country now to go in and make themselves comfortable, as they are aeBiired that the Government I no longer have tne means to inter fere with tnem. The amendment to the bill prohibiting the use of money appropriated for the seizure of any timber cut upon the public lands of the Territories, which is not for export from the territories of the United Stales where the lumber grew, will, in my opinion,, have this efi'i ct. In the territories of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming. Utah and Dakota the indiscriminate deBtiuction of forests will go on as here tofore, without any interference or regu lation upon the part of the Government unless lurther legislation he bad, and 1 am confident that the time is not far distant when the people, especially of the mountainous regions, will look with great regret at their mountains stripped of their forests growth, which, when once destroyed, will never reproduce itself, and remember the enorts made to save it from destruction and disastrous consequences, which inevita bly must follow, which effort has now been defeated. There lis one territory from which an extensive exportation of timber taken from the public lands, especially ship-building timber, has been going on. ihat is the ierntory of Wash ington. Even if this Bmall appropriation now be made, be not abBorbed by other necessities, it would be impossible to use t with any considerable effect to stop the exportation. The Department would not be able to use the money for said purpose unless the intention of the exportation be conclusively Bhown. The difficulty of showing that the intention is apparent, if we are prohibited from using this appropriation in making seizures of lumber cut upon the public land on the spot where it is cut, or tbe lots in booms or in the timber yards of dealers and speculators, and are restricted to Beizurea made where the intent to export is clear; that is to say at the shipping places, it is evident that in placeB with bo many inlets and little harbors as Washington Territory, we can succeed only in very rare in stances. Even with a larger appropria tion, it would be impossible for us, under such restrictions, to prevent the bulk of that illegitimate trade from going aa before, and the stealing of the pub lic timber will therefore, in all probability, be carried on upon a greater scale than before with this encouragement, it is noteworthy that the law prohibiting the taking of timber from the public lands is not repealed by this act. What tbe act really does is to render the Government unable to execute the law, the justice and validity of which has never been questioned until the pres ent time. In my recent report to CongreBB in relation to the efforts made to suppress depredations upon tbe publio lands in ontana, 1 stated that tbe United States went into court as any suitor to recover property wrongfully converted. The right to do bo has been questioned, and in order to show that the statement then made is warranted by the authorities we have followed, I refer to the case of the United States against Cotton, in 11th Howard, page 229, where the Supreme Court of the United State says : Although as sovsreign, the United States may not be Bued, yet as a corporation or body politic they may bring suits to enforce their contracts and protect their property in the State Courts or their own tribunals, administering the same laws. As an owner in almost every State of the United States, they have the same right to have it protected by local laws that other persons have. The manner of proceeding in enforcement is clearly pointed out in sections 914 and 915, Revised Statutes. There can therefore be no question as to the legal authority tinder which the Government has acted in executing the existing laws, and if henceforth the laws are not enforced for want of means, it will not be my fault. I am glad to see that the press of the country appreciate this quesiion, and hi almost unanimously on the side of the law, IMPORTANT POSTAL DICIPION. The FoBtmaster General has issued an order amending the regulation of tbe de partment governing tbe transmission of lirimeu oittr, nuuju i. vury itufiuxiauv in its bearings, inasmuch as it overrules the long established practice in the de partment. Heretofore nothing but business card was permitted upon the wrapper of printed matter. The Poet' master General now has given instructions that any matter in print, which may be transmitted within enclosure, mav also be transmitted at the same rate, if printed upon the wrapper or envelops, lute in cludes business eards, directions for re. turning, and any printed matter on tbe outside ol the wrapper or envelope Postmasters, however, are instructed not to regard the requests for the return of such matter unless stamps to pay return postage are presented. CHARSFS AGAINST COMMISSIONER SPEAR. Charges against Commissioner Spear, of the .Talent uthce, are in no sense the result of any ill feeling between that officer and Secretary Schorl, so far as tbe Uommis sioner is aware. They grew out of a de cision in an interference oase, in which disappointed contestant not only charges incompetency and incapacity upon the Commirsionsr, but also alleges the mutil ation of the record. It is also stated that a well known patent attorney is behind the accusirg party. Commissioner Spear states he bad occasion during the hearing to alter the phraseology of one of his rul' ings in an interlocutory question, but that in doing so he in no Becse changed the force or meaning of the ruling, and that it is upon this the charge of mutilation is brought. TIMBER DEPREDATIONS, Hon. Mania Maginnis. Delegate from Montana, received the following dispatch from Helena, dated March 23 : United States Marshal Wheeler reports five thousand dollars caah collected from seized wood and lumber in Montana, mostly from wood in the hands of laborers, who live by cutting and hauling wood to market. The tax haB advanced lumber only. Consumers have suffered, not tbe saw mill men, as erroneously stated by the Newlan letter to the Sec retary of the Interior. The timber has been used only for domestic purposes, not for speculation. The low price of wood now ia attributable entirely to the remarkably mild winter which has been like autumn weather since October. H. M. Parchen, President Helena Board ot Trade, BOILER 1N8PICTOR APPOINTED Charles M, Ridgeway has been ap pointed Assistant Inspector of Boilers for this district. CRIME AND CASUALT7. A t'apalzed Schooner. San Francisco, March 24 The schooner General Miller, Captain May, belonging to the Alaska Commercial company, sailed from this port February lb. lor Alaska, having as a passenger Colonel Woods, United States Collector of Customs for the Teriitory of Alaska. A day or two ago, the schooner was dis covered bottom up a few miles up the coast and is now being towed in port. Alt on board were undoubtedly lost. Ihe vessel and cargo waB valued at about $50,000. Kelnru of a Damaged sloop of Wnr. New York, March 24. Returned the United States sloop of war Wyoming, J. C. Watson, commander, hence for Havre, on tbe 10:h inst., with goods for the Paris Imposition, When hve hundred miles out it was found the vessel was leaking, and fearing tbe approach of the heavy head winds and an increase of leakage, it was concluded to return to this port. She will probably go on the dry dock for repairs, which can bs completed in two days. The captain has gone to Washington for instructions. Mnrderer Lynched. Wheeling, W. Va , March 24 Train men arriving in this city this morning brought the news of the hanging of John Wallace laat mgbt at .Burton Station, near Littleton, the scene of the horrible mur der committed by Wallace on the 19th inst. Later information confirms the re port and says the lynching waB done at an early hour this morning by tweotyfive masked men, who took Wallace from the officers and hung him to a tree at the edge of the woods. A Murderer Fully Identified. Ppiladelphia, March 24 In the cxee of Hunter, accused for the Armstrong murder, Graham's statement has been further confirmed to-day. Mrs. SpelliBay, the adv from whom the felt hat was purchas ed, was taken to Camden to-day and identi fied Hunter. The lady attendent in the store also identifies Graham as being with Hunter at the time. Ihe proacution say now they have the chain ot evidence complete. BiysiBriouii manppearance or Hon. 4UHU mi, vance. Cincinnati, March 24. It is an nounced that ex-Congressman John L. Vance of Ohio has mysteriously disappeared. He left the Walnut Street House, this city, last Thursday evening, ostensibly to visit some unknown party in Covington, since whioh time no trace can be discovered, although the' police have abored diligently in tbe search, foul play is feared. Bond Bobber Identified. Petesrbubo, Va., March 24. The guilt of the parties arrested yesterday, charged with tbe Young bond robbery, in JNew lork, has been fully established. All the missing bonds and securities were found in their possession. A large amount of United SlateB bonds, believed to have been stolen from other parties, was aBO found in the possession of the robbera. An Old I.ady Murdered by Iter ifaugtiter. Syracuse, N. Y., March 24 Mrs. Lucy L. Day, an old woman, aged eighty, was murdered Saturday, at Cicero, tbie county, by her daughter, a married wo man, aged 4o. ohe stabbed her at the dinner table with a knife, in a quarrel, the result of an old feud. AlleKed Incendiaries Arrested. Pottsville, Pa., March 24. An at tempt was made last evening to fire the office of the Chronicle and Standard, but the fire was discovered by an employe in time to prevent its spreading. IN at Men- nig and Joseph Connor, two men recently discharged from the office, were arreated on suspicion and committed. Burned to Detain. Wheeling. W. Va March 24 At an early hour this morning, John Milan, a driver for John Butterfield, while in toxicated, lost his life by the burning of a stable attached to Butterfield'a malt house, he having gone into the hay-ioft to sleep. Death of Another Tlellm of the JhTag-enta Aocldent. New York, March 24 Richard Lowe, a victim of the Magenta disaster, died at Sing Sing last night, making the tourth death from that accident, Pell from Train of Cars. Middletown. N. Y March 24 John Booney, of San Francisco, was picked op by a freight train this morning half con scious, Saving apparently fallen from tbe Atlantic express. I burch Struck by Lightning-. Cincinnati, March 24 The Church of the Mother of God (Roman Catholic) in Covington, Kentuckv. was struck bv lightning this morning, and damaged to the extent ot ouu. FOREIGN. British Training Ship Cap sizes in a Gale. Between Three Hundred and Four Hundred Lives Lost Rumors of an Alliance Between Russia and Turkey, Tbe Russian People Disappointed with the Treaty. Londok, Maroh 24. The report has just been received here that the British naval training ship Eurydice, with four hundred men on board, has capsized on the south coast of the Isle of Wight. 4 iSecond Diepatah.l Londok, March 24 The Admiral commanding at Portsmouth telegraphs the following particulars received from the coast guard at Ventnor : The Eurydice capsized off Dunnoz Head at half past four olclock this after noon, in a sudden squall. One boy and seaman were saved. Other advices indicate between three hundred and four hundred lives have been lost. The Admiral, on receiving the news of the disaster, immediately dispatched a steamer to the scene of the wreck. - The Eurydice was a training ship for ordinary Beamen, under command of Captain Marcus A. 8. Hare. She was sixth rate, 921 tons, and carried four guna. Probability of a Uusas-Turblab Alli ance. Constantinople, March 24. Count Zichey, the Austrian Ambassador, has postponed his intended departure on a furlough, because of the critical aspect of affairs. TheCzir has not absolutely declined to grsnt tbe concession asked for by Reouf Pasha, but has made hia sssent dependent upon a condition, which is believed to be a Russo-Turkish alliance. It is asserted that Reouf and Oiman Pashas favor such an alliance. There is, however, a strong pro E.iglish party, which opposes it. The Reported Massacres in Thesaaly to be luveatigati'd. AxuKNa, March 24 It ia reported that the women and children massacred by tbe Tuiki in the sacking of the Thesaalian villages of Olympas, Respana, Carea and Ltitochori, number many thousands. Admiral Hornby, at the request of the British representative at Athens, has dis patched a vessel to ascertain the truth of these reports. Beturn of Hainan and Reonf Paabas. Constantinople, March 21. Rsouf Pasha, Osman Pasha and Gen. Ignatief arrived here this evening. They will make a formal and ceremonious entry into the city to-morrow and have an interview with the Sultan. It is not yet known in what capacity General Ignaticfl' returns here. Violent Gale and Snow Throughout England. London, March 24. A violent gale with snow prevailed here to-day and extended throughout England. It was particularly severe at Liverpool. Tbe treaty Fulls Nbortef What Ihe People Expected. St. Petersburg, March 24. The G0I03 declares the treaty of peace falls short of the aspirations of the RueBian peiple. A Premature Report. St. Petersburg, March 24. The Agence Russe says : The statement that Russia has requested Ensland to with draw her fleet from the sea of Marmara is premature. Tbe German Intercut Sot Affected by Ihe Treaty. Berlin, March 24. The North Ger man Gazette says the treaty doeB not affect the German interest. THE SNOW. Snowing and Freexlng. Montreal. March 24. A heavy snow storm has been raging all day,' There is no appearance of ceasing. It is freezing bard. Two Inchcsof snow and Still Falling Buffalo, March 24. About two inches of snow fell here laat night. It is still snowing. Snowing and ntoi uilng. Watertown, N. Y., March 24. Eight inchea of snow has fallen here to day and it ie still storming. Whisky niaiiHllcs. Wheeling. W. Va . March 24. The books of the Internal Revenue office bIiow the quantity of distilled spirits in bonded warehouses the first instant, in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, as follows : Ohio, 1,-412,529 gallons; Indiana, 642,126 gallons, and Illinois, 512.680 gallons. The quan tity in warehouse in Kentucky on the first of February was 6,708 665 gallons. The producing capacity throughout the country on the first of March was 228 265 gallons per day, as compared with 246,539 gallons on the first of March, 1877, and 245 249 gallons on the first of March, 1876. Fire at Heesvllle, New York. Whitehall, N. Y., March 24 Fire at Keeaville this morning destroyed Pres-cott & Weston's Bash, door, blind and furniture establishment, the Methodist Church, a grist mill, plaster mill, and two dwelling houses. Loss $25,000. The loss will be over $50 000. Preston & Weston alone lose $30,000. Ten dwelling houses, a school house, and a store house with 4000 bushels of corn were destroyed, The fire is supposed to be incendiary. Canada Overlaud Railroad Ter-mtnue.San FRAscisco,March 24 A Victoria dispatch says Admiral Dehersey's report as to the best terminus for the Canada overland railroad is published by the Col onist to-day. It condemns the Burrard inlet and Sheena river as harbors and strongly favors tbe adoption of the Bute Inlet route, with Eaquinnalt as the terminus.Church Doors 1 aed Against a minuter. Trentoh, N. J , March 24. The doors of the Clinton Street Methodist Episcopal Church were to day closed against Rev. William H. Pearne, who was appointed its pastor by the recent New Jereey annual Conference. The Church deeire to retain the present pastor. Death or George P. Bowler. Cincinnati, March 24. George P. Bowler, of this city, one of the principal owners of the Kentucky Central railroad, died this morning in Paris, France, of gout at the heart, aged thirtylwo, He leaves a wife and a young son, who were with him in fans, tie had recently re. turned to Paris from Egypt. SUMMARY OF SUNDAY'S NEWS. '' Counterfeits of the new silver dollar have made their appearance in New York. , It ia thought the "bird" on the new silver dollar will be removed and an eagle put in 11a piace. A Washington special to the Cincinnati Enquirer of yesterday says: Governor lorn Young left here to-night for Cincinnati. If his name is sent in next week as successor to Lew Weitzal it need not sur prise tbe tax-payers who walk to that of. bee and pay Government assessments. One thing is certain, and that ia. Young has been assured he can have the offioe if be wants it. An eccentric old woman, known aa Ruth Ann Moss, was lound dead Saturday, in her bouse at East New York. It is believed that she starved herself to death. She owned the house in which she lived, and in her rooms were found two thousand dollars' worth of paintings, and carpets which had not been unrolled. She had stated that she was the widow of the late Judge Roas, of Staten Island, and that he was a millionaire. A. T. Stewart's New York Hotel for women will be opened April 2. The re ception of boarders will take place on the 3d Women who support themselves by daily labor are invited to participate in the benefits of the Home. A limited number of the rooms will be set apart for the UBe of ladies visiting the city on business. The rules and regulations will be such as govern all first class hotels, and board and lodging will cost six dollars per week. Among the Department clerks at Wash ington there is a feeling of insecurity, on account of the evident purpose of Congress to cause a severe retrenchment in all the Departments, by reducing the appropriations. It is probable that many clerks will be discharged before Congress gets over the retrenchment fever, and the salaries reduced of those who remain. In the Fostofiice Department every clerk has' had to make out a complete inventory of all work done during the month of Esb-ruary, with a view to a possible reduction of force and pay. A Washington special to the Commer cial says: The House committee on Claims has agreed to a bill allowing $4016 to John Zimstein. of Cincinnati, for sutler's stores taken by Sherman's army wnen tbe latter were tired and hungry, and without rations. Ex Governor Tom Young endeavored to induce the committee to allow interest on this amount, but although Buch interest would have swollen the sum to only onehalf of the $13,000, which it was proved had been lost by Zimstein, the committee declined to secede, suggesting to the claimant that hall a I oat u better than no bread." General Banks and Mr. S. S Cox have resolutions prepared, to be introduced in the House on Monday, definitely settling the question of the hours of labor for Government work, and both will insist that the proper and legal interpretation of the law of eight hours means eight hours. and that no head of a Department has a right to put any other construction on it. These resolutions will insist upon a literal construction of the act, and will censure the Secretary of the Navy for taking a different view of the case in his recent order requiring tbe employes of that De partment who are engaged as mechanics and laborers to work ten hours. The eudden death, Saturday, of apo plexy, of Hon. John Allison, Register of tbe United States Treasury, coming so close upon the similar demise of the late Comptroller Taylor, has cast a gloom upon tbe omcials of the Ireasury Department, by whom both of the deceased were highly esteemed. UnBeemlv haBte is evinced by outsiders to press their peti tions lor the vacant otiice. It is believed, however, that in this instance the civil service rules will be adhered to, and the position tilled by promotion. William P. Tilcomb, of Massachusetts, the Assist ant Register, is next in actual line of promotion, but Major Power, who was form erly Chief Clerk under Mr. Allison, and promoted by Secretary Bristow to his present position as chief of the important Division of Warrants, has reason to ex pect that he will be advanced to the- va cant Registership, the salary of which is $4000, $1250 more than the salary now received by him. Mr. Allison was appointed in April, 1869, and was Bixtysix years of sga. He was a native of Bolivar, Pennsylvania, whither his remains were taken Saturday evening. Mr. Allison was formerly a Representative in Congress, and was a Republican candidate for United States Senator. A New Orleans special to the Cincin nati Commercial of yesterday says : Attorney General Ojden has filed application for rehearing before the Supreme Court, of which the Btrong point and bright particular thought is the following: lake Ihe document under discussion and suppose that on its face it should not appear to be a record, would not proof that it has been offered and received in evidence in a court of justice make it at once a public record, and constitute its alteration a crime under the statute?" The whole application is based upon this idiotic argument, which is convulsing tbe legal profession here with laughter, for the most obtuse intellect must perceive that inasmuch as the alleged alteration, if made at all, had been made before the ac ceptance of thedocument as legal evidence, any subsequent transformation of the document into a public record, couldn't by any process of reasoning constitute that alteration as criminal which was made before the document became of public record. Everybody, of course, knows that Ogden's brief is working only for political tffdct, but common sense should at least have marked the diction of the application. No one rezards it likely that tbe Court will cons'der the application at all. Olili, The Cambridge Republicans have nom inated Captain W. H. Farrar for Mayor. W. B. Hain, of Circleville, is under arrest on a charge of bastardy preferred Dy nose rotter. The corner stone of the new Lutheran Church, near New Philadelphia, was laid on the 23d with appropriate ceremonies. The Republicans of Urbana have renominated C. H. Ganson for Mayor, and George M. Russell for Infirmary Director. Tuesday is the eleventh anniversary of tbe Soldiers' Home, at Dayton. It will be observed with appropriate ceremonies, A four year old son of Frank Cheshire, of Logan, was perhaps fatally injured on the 231, by being kicked in the forehead by a horse. George Glenn, charged with burglary, at Cleveland, and who escaped some ten days ago, has been retnrned, he having peen round in rulaski county, Indiana, Frederick Dreyer, of Limaville, Stark county, was killed on the 18th inst by the accidental discharge of a carbine, with which he was engaged in shooting musk-rats.The following plavers have been par- tiallyor wholly engaged by Ihe Cleveland case am uiub tor the ensuing seuson : William Btrnie, of Brooklyn, catcher; James L. Clinton, late of the Louisvilles, Sitcher; John Coyne, of Elizabeth, New ersey, change catcher; Warren Laird, of Lexington, first base; Steve Wolford, of Springfield. Ohio, third base: Lch. Mask- r'ey, of Illinois, short stop; McCarthy, of but, uiu .cries, second case; jonn r . unicx, of Cleveland, field, and W. T. Dickerman, 01 Lawrence, Kansas, held. Several others are talked of. On the 18th a bridge at Poland. Ma honing county, over which a house was being moved, gave way, and precipitated sixteen men and boys into the water below. Henry Moherman was fearfully mang'ed and killed, Mr.' Robinson had his arm and collar bone broken and spine injured and was not expected to live; a horse had two legs broken and was killed to relieve its misery. Oae arch of the bridge was left standing in apparently as gocd condition as ever. The accident was caused by the lunge of the horse. The bridge did not break, but twisted over sideways. A Newark special of Saturday, the 23d, contains the following: The following are tbe material facts in reference to the pair of mysterious infants found by the good Fathers of St. Joseph's College, near Somerset : On the 5th of December Lucy Tanner commenced proceedings in bastardy, before E quire Anderson, against William Hannon, who was bound over to court in the sum of $40. On the 14th of March Miss Lucy became the mother of twins, which disappeared early the present week, and naturally led to suspicion of foul play, bringing about the apprehension of tbe reputed father, and confession as to the disposition made of the waifs. The babies were labeled, when found, with tbe important if true information that their sire was a gentleman of wealth, position and rank, who would amply reward the finders for care and trouble. Foreign. , m , . Fifty thousand Turkish troops are now encamped in the plain of Bayukdere, and here are- nfty battaliona in the Jinen de- fending Constantinople. O'Leary, the American champion, is the winner of the International Walking Match, just completed at London, roring oil) miles to bis highest opponent's oOO. The widow of Rossini, the celebrated n.ueical composer of France, is dead. It is understood she has bequeathed a fortune inherited from Rossini to the Asy lum for Aged Disabled Singers. The Austrian delegation referred to the Government a petition to take steps, by an international understanding, for dis infecting late battle fields, and arresting the danger which threatens the health of Europe. The landing of a force on the Asiatic side of the sea of Marmora has unquestionably been considered by the British Government. Railway material, to be laid on a parallel line with the Dardanelles, hs been purchased. The Sanitary Commission have arrived at Erzroum from Tiflis. They found 20,000 corpses two feet under ground, frozen, but not decomposed. The Commission are deliberating whether to cremate the corpses or use quick lime. A Berlin dispatch says: Herr Hofmann has declined the Ministry of Finance. It is said that Herr Hobrecht, Chief Burgomaster of Berlin, haa accepted. The Lower House haB begun the debate upon the Bnpplementary estimates required for the organic changeB in the Ministry. Bismsrck vigorously supported the measure, and declared that unless a different administration of railways ie instituted, be will not remain in power. The debate adjourned until Wednesday. The British Cabinet requires a declara tion from Russia that the communication of the instrument of peace to the powerB is equivalent to its formal presentation to theCongrees. The Russian Cabinet, however, considers that by making the above mentioned communication it has fulfilled international duties, and is less inclined to agree to a special presentation of the treaty to the Congress, inasmuch as by making known all the conditions of peace, it has afforded each power an opportunity of making separate provieions of the treaty the subject of European deliberation. An understanding upon this point has not yet been reached. Until it is de cided the fate of the Congress is uncer tain. The London Times, in an editorial, says: Ihe treaty purposes tbe creation ot a new estate in the Hainan rentoeuia, which would dwarf all others, and which, supported by external influence, would inevitably strangle all other interests. New Bulgaria would extend considerably beyond the limits in which the Slavonic population is preponderant. Wherever the presumed limits, such preponderances are not coincident with good geographical boundary. The boundary line has been pushed forward to the injury of other populations and Stales. The result is that the new Principality would occupy the whole central maBS of the peninBula, forming a State in comparison with which Servia and Montenegro would be insignificant, and reducing the remaining possessions of Turkey to absurdity. Europe cannot avoid very grave doubts whether such an arrangement would be either just or exempt from danger of great future disturbances. A Knnslau Glbralter. 8in;e 1704 England has had her guns on that Spanish rock that commands the Btraits and entrance into the Mediterranean, and now Russia is said to covet, on the upper Bonphorm, an equal "coign of vanteg," for her ambition. The small naval station at Belcos, and the possession of the Giant Mountain, just back of the village, would enable its holders to effectually command the Boaphorus as far as Scutari, and close it against all comers. The "question of the Straits" is not a commercial one, the navigation being perfectly free to all merchantmen, a small sum beirg collected for the light house service from passing sbipa. As a war question, when it is remembered that the great empire of Russia, that stretches across thirty degrees of latitude, is in the position of the historic starling, and "can not get out," except by way of the land-locked and early frozen Baltic, with her ships of war, one of the three solutions of the matter is of imminent importance. As stated by a correspondent of the New York Tribune, the several proposals are as follows : "(1) No ships of war to pass the Straits except as specified by treaty; or (2) ships of war belonging to the nations which border the seas to which the Straita are the only access to pass he Straits at will, but no other war Bhips to do so under any circumstances; or (3) all ships of war to pass the Straits freely. "The first solution is the one England desires, and is the arrangement that has held good up to the present time; it pro teots Russia from attack unless Turkey is at war with her. The second is what Russia desires and Ebgland dreads, since it would allow KiiSBia to send lleets irom the Black Sea to wage war upon any Mediterranean power, with absolute freedom from danger to herself so long as she was at peace with Turkey. The third solu tion seems to be the only just one, and accords with the position which the United States takeson the question. But all the Powers seem equally opposed to absolute freedom of the Straits, and Rus sia more so than any other." M. A. 87 W EST BROAD STR23XIT. Vanderbllt and ClaUln. New York World, Maroh 21.1 Buckman Claflin testified that he came to this city in 1868 and was the father of Tennie 0, Claflin; he became acquainted with Commodore Vanderbilt in the spring of 1869; at this time his daughter was twentyone or twentytwo years old Mr. Lord said that he offered to prove that this witness knew of a contract of marriage between Commodore Vanderbilt and Miss Tennie C. Claflin, and that the Commodore told the witness he intended to marry her and wanted tbe approval of her parents. Mr. Clinton To be consistent I have got to make an objection; otherwise I should be glad to make an exception in this case. The Surrogate I exclude It. Mias Clsllin does not appear in this case to be .. .5.... . .. " ' . uu 1 buexe 10 uuiuuiK lu euuw mai a marriage ;,k ... f . , , "1 dU " I' Tt TLi intenHflJ tn ma. h 'it nnH ahft f. . he was inBane or of weak mind. Mr. Lord Not insane, of course, but of weak mind, perhaps, when the great dis parity of age is conBidered. I offer to Bhow that his mind was in such a state at this time that he offered himself to almost every marriageable woman, which we claim tended to show weakness of mind; that although he rolled along in his railroad groove by mere force of habit, yet in all other respects he was pasBing into his Becond childhood. The offer was excluded. O Do you recollect going with vour daughter to the Commodore's after bis second marriage? Mr. Clinton ohjsoted. Mr. Lord I propose to Bhow that he went there with his wife and daughter and found there Commodore Vanderbilt and Mra. Vanderbilt, and that all the per sons named left the hall where they were and went to some other room, leaving Mr. Claflin in the hall, and that the Com modore came back with his arm around Miss Claflin in the presence of his wife. and under those circumBtanoes kissed her, and that Mrs. Vanderbilt made no re-monstrance or sign of dissent, and that he also eaid to Miss Claflin, "You might have been Mrs. Vanderbilt." The offer was excluded, A Good Book-Keeper. San Antoalo (Tex.) Expresa. We met "Old Mose" yesterday, and no ticed that there was a dark cloud hover ing over his despondent brow. "Whals the matter, Under we asked. He shook hie head as if he had nothing left to live for, and said : I'se in a peck of trouble, va Lord knows where die heah is gwine to end. I'se done gib it up. "What is the trouble about I After several sighs that seemed to come up from the bottom of his boots, he ex plained that he was Secretary of the local colored lodge of Free Masons; that he was the custodian of the booke; that for keeping the books he was paid by the lodge $10 a month; that every Saturday night, alter the lodge was over, he carried the books home and turned them over to the "ole 'ooman, Aunt Dinah," for safekeeping, and she stowed them away in her trunk, "along wid her 'fishal flowers, and fedders, and finery, and sich." He also said that he had forgotien to mention to Aunt Dinah that he was receiving $10 a month for keeping the books, and he had uniformly forgotten to turn over to her the aforesaid $10, but had squandered the same for his own little personal expenses; that Borne unknown demon had informed Dinah that Old Moso was getting $10 for keeping the books, and consequently, when he remarked the other evening that it was time for him to go to the lodge, and requested her to hand him out the books, instead of doing so she sat down on the trunk, and positively refused to turn over the documents until he had paid over tbe $10. When he told her the $10 were hia'n for keeping the books, she retorted: "Who's been keepin' dem ar books? Hasn't I been keepin' de books in de trunk slide time? Han' out dem funds wat's comin' to me for keepin' de books " What did you tell her, Mose?" 'I tole her I wanted dem books to keep de minite in, dat she didn't know how to keep de books, but she 'lowed she was gwine to show me she knowed how to keep de books, and foah God I Bbe is a keepin' 'em. De lodge has pinted a committee to investigate my accounts, and darahe is a equattin' on de trunk holdin' out her ban' forde $tu i'se done spent. Doesn't yer know somebody who wants $10 wuff of whitewashing done in ad vance?" The best part of the foregoing is that it is baaed on facts. Farmer Garflnld. Dr. Norton, of Seneca county, haa introduced a bill in the House to gerrymander the State I Under the bill as introduced Mahoning is put into the Nine teenth district and Portage is left out. Under this management Garfield, if he continues in CongreSB, would have to rep resent another constituency. xmngslomn Vxndxeator. This is a mistake. General Garfield lives in Lake county. He moved from Portage more than a year ago, and ie now a farmer in Mentor township. His place is within gun-shot of the Lake Shore railroad, and raises as good corn and potatoes as any man in that section. Vlvvelana Leader. A Mlaalaalppt Adder on Drinks. Vlcktburg Herald. 1 It iB estimated that 3 500.000 tons of ice will be cut in Maine this winter. Now, allowing a quarter of a pound of ice for a mint julep, and making allowance lor those who don't drink, the rest of the people in Maine can have about fortynine drinks each. Saying that seven drinks will make a man feel tolerably happy, out of fortynine drinks he oan manage to have seven drunks, and one man drunk seven times is, of course, equal to seven drunken men; so the whole ice crop will yield an aggregate of 2,100,000 drunken men. Suppose that from every ten of those who get drunk Beven times, one ban the jim jams, 210,000 men will be thus ihTcted about onetbird of the total population of the State) If each of these unfortunate men eeea 1000 snakes, there will be 2-0,. 000,000 snakes seen, and allowing two snakes to a boot, they will fill 52,500,000 pairs, which insures briak work in the shoe shops. PRITCHARD &, CO. Are receiving dailr fe'h ooasla-ninents uf 1--BU 1 T4, APPLE 8! ALBO Sweet Potatoes, Beans, Peas & General Produce. Consignments Solicited. New Advertisements. ROAD JNOTICE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A PE-Tl HON will be preseuted to the Commissioners ot FraakliD county, at their next, session, April 27th, A.D 1878, praying tor the location or establishing of a couuty road ou the following line, to-wit: Beginning at an angle in the Hard road on the Hoe between land owned by Samuel Hard on the north and Isaac Yobam on the south, in Parry township; thence on said line eaatnardly about 82 pole, to the east line of Perry township; alao, west line of Sharon township; also, b.iug the weal line of John Wilson's Und ; Ihenca on the township line between the lands ol said Wilson and Hard, northwaidiy about ten Jioiea to the line between said Wilson and 8. Andrus; thence with the line between Wilson and anurua, eat-wardly to the county rod, known as the River road ; being in. first road west of Olentanjiy river. Also, aBking for the vacation of said old road from the angie it entioned in said p-lition; thence south to the line betwe.n Aadrtii aod Yokam; thebc. east to the township line; th.nce south to the road kn-jwa as Proprietors road, running eait to the River road. March 23, A. 1). 1S7S. mr'ii dlt w3t c Don't Read Tlx i ! I PILES Unfit BT ME IN Id TO SO DAYS NO PAY UNTILCURKD. Our. WARRANT. ED EVERY T1MB. No cutting; no ligatiiig; no - auicioo id taae. 'reatment almost 1'Alw-LEd. Send for Circulars, mr call on me at UNI I'ED STATES HOTEL. Colifmlms. Ohin. .1 following dates, via: On Fridays, March 29, April iz and ua, May 1U and 24, June 7 and 21. Consultation Free. A. W. BK1NKEBHOKF, mr25 eow 3m bpecialiat.Upor Sandusky, O. Notice to Contractors. ' EALED PKOP03ALS WILL BE RECEIV- EO until Friday noon. March 2a. 187a. for grading, clearing and grtlbb ng the street np- o' aite Agricultural College, on Henry M. Neil's property. 'the specifications oan be seen at any time at the office of J N. Beem.r, Civil Enuiueer, Mit-liofl Block, 117 North High St. Eighly par cent in caBh every two weeks on estimate and the btlaace on the completion of itm wura accoraing to contract. mrzo ot HHi-MKYM.Ke.lL. Jacob R. McQarbt. Cub. W. Kami. McGAllRY & HARK, ATTORNEYS And OfltlHSELOKS.AT.LAW, Rooms 7 and 8, Esplanade Building, a. E. ror. Flftll and Walnut Bia, mr26 1taw6mm Ciuciuuaii, O. UANTK ft A LIVE MAN in .very county It nil I tu m tii, u. 8.. lo m-nufacturo Bnf sell a -tapls artrjle lust ented. Exclusive right aiven. Liberal terms. Laige pro&ta Small capital. mr25 eod Im B. MORBI3, Chicngo, III . ABBY S. PUTNAM'S ES TATE, NOTICE ia hereby given that the undersisne't haa been appointed and dutv Qualified aa Execuior of the estate of Abbv S. Putnam, late ol Franklin county, O., deceased. VAVIU a rUIWAM. Maroh 23, 1878. mr26 Haw 3w Ihe Vegetable Garden. The size of a garden, where there is plenty of land to appropriate to it, should be in accordance to the wants of the family in the way of vegetables and fruit. rroperiy lam out and plols set apart for each crop, it is surprising what a deal of stun can ne ootatned from tbe space appropriated. Let us set down the different vegetables that should be provided for a family say of eight persons: 1. Eirly and later peas, to afford a daily supply for from four to six weeks. 2. An onion bed of the white variety. 3. Beets. 4. Lettuce sown in borders and set out from plants forced in hotbeds (every garden should have three little hotbeda for toma toes, egg and cabbage plants, leaving room for enough lettuce plante). 5. A small bed of Horn carrots. 6. Half a dczan stools of rhubarb for early pies and stewing, 7. Two small beds of bush beans, to be planted at intervals, 8. From forty to fifty bills of Lima bear.B. 9. The sweet corn crop. This is very important, and say twenty hills should be planted every ten or twelve days up to July, which will furnish a supply until frost intervenes in October. But the Lima beans and sweet corn should not be included in the garden space; ground should be set apart for them outside, as there are tew gardens 01 moderate sizj that will admit of them. There are other vegetables, such as radishes, spinach, squashes, etc , that will of course receive attention. Of course, alao, when the period arrives, tomatoes, egg plants, etc , will be duly set out. All tbe foregoing, except liima beans and corn, sufficient for eight persons, can be included in a garden of moderate aizs, such as the owner of farm land should provide, What Tbej Hmoue In Germanj. Pall Mall Gaaette. In connection with Prince Bismarck's tobacco project, a celebrated botanist. Herr Schlieden, has published eome sta tistics in regard to the manufacture and sale of cigars in Germany. It appears that in Ihuringia alone about one hundred and fifty tons of beetroot leaves are annually "transformed into tobacco." in Magdeburg and the Palatinate the cigar-makers employ lsiga quantities not only of beetroot leaves, but also of the leaves of endive, and even of the potato plant, The cigars sold in Germany as coming from Vevey, at a price ol Irom one mark to one mark and a half a hundred, do not, according to Herr Schlieden, contain any tobacco, "ex cept that made with cabbage or turnip leaves which bad neen deprived of their specific odor by various manipulations, and eub'tquently steeped for tome time in extract of tobacco." Herr Schlieden adds, with an air of conscious pride, "that in no country in the world are cigars sold at so cheap a rate as in Germany." Weekly List of Patents. The following Ohio natnts were nassed to Issue by ike United States Patent Office March 12. 1878. and will be illustrated and officially announced in No. 11 of he Official Ixezette, wnica win no issued March 2U,187B: O. O. Tittle, -Cincinnati, flour and meal scoop, measure and sieve. V. Black, Cincinnati, devices tor handling hogsheads of tobacco. A. Henishel, Cincinnati, sofa bedsteads. 8. T. Wellman, Cleveland, rolls for rolling plate metal, F. E. Cudell, Cleveland, sewer gas traps. F. E. Cudell, Cleveland, stove evaporators. J, McOounell, Cleveland, toy pistols, u. ri s K. H.oner, wiretts-ville, combined flour chest, sifter and sate. A. Kesart, Jennings township, gates J Miller, Canton, barvister rakes. T M. Drint-nail, Medina, lamp burners. N, B. Acbeson, Youngatown, nut locks. W. L. Merrin, Fredericktown, organ reed. W. J. Way, Berlin Height', Sisb holders R Uhrich, TJricksville, eiplt jus. ) 11 Fostor, Delaware, wind engines.

Ma ni VOL. XXXIX, COLUMBUS, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1878. NO. 71, si.i SIEBEHT . & LILLET, BLANK BOOK M INDFACTURERS. PrinterH.HInderH, Stationer! and Legal Blank Publisher. BOOK BINDING 0 entry Daeriptim.by the Edition or otnote voum. Open Haass Building (Up Stairs), p4 COLUMBUS. ISAIAH PlLLABS. BODNIT FOOS, PILLARS & FOOS, Attorneys-at-Law, Room Mo. 0, Pioneer Block, fobs tltf w4t COLTJHBUS, OHIO, SPRING AND SUMMER Woolens GEO. T. DUVALL, Merchant Tailor ! 157 V OUT If HIGH ST. auTSly WALL PAPERS ! FOR THE SEASON OF 1878! In addition to the regular Hues, we have tbia spring made a SPECIALTY Of the fine goodi raanuf etured by Ihe famous hous) of FR. W40K & CO. The-e goods compete successfully with the finest !ng ish Papers in the EN0LI3H MARKET, and ae the most popular made ia this country. GEO. W.TlEASON, 09 SOUTH HIGH ST., sep2t6mlp Onnnntre file I'anllol. jjioSiatconrnaL Oil; Ulan, I'rurl mill 4 Impel M. . tOMF-T. A. W. TBANCIHCO. COMLY & FRANCISCO, PUBMBllKtlS AK1I PBOPHIETOUS. 1. W. FKAKCISCO, - (leneral Manager LEBIoLATlVE SUMMARY. General Anaeiublj. March 23. Senate Bills introduced: Authorizing a tax levy io Cincinnati for an astronomical observatory; appointing an assistant prosecuting attorney for Lucas county; draining roads in Marion county Resolutions adopted: Authorizing arms and ammunition for the Marietta reunion; to investigate the seating at the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb Bills passed: Improving ditches in V, ood county; authorizing Newark to levy an additional tin; allowing Pomeroy to sell a cemetery; relieving D. V. Dingenou and H..H. Sprague, of Shelby county; au-thorizing Olmatead, Cuyahoga county, to irect infirmary buildings; authorizing Brown county to build connecting turnpikes; authorizing Mdrshallvillc, Wayne county, to protect itself against firo. Home Bills passed: Authorizing Middle-town, Butler county, to light streets and public buildings by contract; allowing Mc-Connelsville to transfer fund'; changiog the name of the Hucgerbuebler family, of Franklin county, to Buehler Messrs. Thorp, Dalzell and Greene presented a communication, declining to serve longer on the Soldiers Orphans' Home committee under the present Chairman Mr. O'Connor, whereupon that gentleman tendered 'his re slgnation, and all the requests were granted by the Bouse Indication for Tennessee and the Ohio Valley Cisar or partiy cloudy weather, cold, northerly winds and rising barometer, followed at west station! by winds veering to warmer southerly, and falling barometer. Gold cloeed in New York Saturday at 101 i. ntewark Hole,. Newark, March 24. To the Editor of the Ohio State Journal : The pair of babies left on the doorsteps of a Church in Somersett, a night or two since are, as suspected by the authorities of that place, Newarkers. The wealth of the parents as reported is a mistake, it ia not fabulous. The father, a tender youth, has not yet got beyond the sphere of chambermaid in a livery stable, nor the mother above that of a help in a private family, with a very indifferent moral character. When the matter is fully adjusted the Licking County Infirmary will have its boarders increased two. Dick's lecture on temperance and gambling last night drew like a fly blister. The Opera House was pieity well filled with a very respectable audience of ladies and gentlemen curious to hear what Dick had to otter in any way reformatory. Hia speech, like some of those the Immortal J. N. Bays he has made, waB moving. Those who did not move out were compelled to listen to slang which no one of the audience understood except the gamblers present. A lecture from Joe Cook now can't be said to be out of order, after which the temperance movement in Newark will be in shape to retire for repairs.Legislators, in their zeal to further the interests of the general public, sometimes make mistakes. The bill to prevent net fishing in the streams and reservoirs of Ohio now pending in the Legislature, if passed, will give general satisfaction and result in treat good. An amendment to the bill, offered by Mr. Tucker, to prevent hook Sailing during a certain period of the year is, to say the leaBt of it, nonsensical and in no way a protection. If the gentleman will take the trouble to post himself. He will learn that game fish seldom take the hook while on their spawn beds. Put a step to the use of nete,which manner of fishing is especially destructive to the young fry, and it will not be long until this excellent article of diet will become abundant everywhere. BY TELEGRAPH TO THS OHIO STATS JOVBNAL WASHINGTON. An Interview with Secretary Schurz on the Timber Question. The Rights and Pownrs of the Government. The Appropriation for the Discov- eryjand Prosf cation of Depredators Insufficient. Charges Against 1 Com ml h- Bioner ftpear, of the Patent Ufllce. Amended Regulation for the Trans mission of Printed Matter. SECRETARY 8CHORZ INTERVIEWED, Washington. March 24 Secrelarv Schurz, in an interview upon the recent action of the Senate on the matter of tim ber depredations, said : The appropria tion for the discovery and prosecution of timber depredators reduced, aa it has been to $5000 by the Senate, will, under the present circumstances, not be sufficient to prepare the necessary testimony for the trial or the many cases now impending in me ainerent stales, There are many suitB still pending in Mississippi, Mich : VU!- a: r t ieui. iBiiuuriu, juiuucHum nuu u'.,uini- ana, and seventeen indictments in Florida and tifteen in California. In many in stances it will be necessary, ii order to complete the testimony, to employ surveying parties to retrace the lines where the depredations have been committed, so as to enable the Government to show authoritatively the particular subdivision of the public lands upon whicn limner has been cut, and this costs money. As the preparation of this testimony is the most imperative thing to be done at present, we shall have to apply the money appropriated to that purpose, and we shall be obliged to abandon the investigation of depredations and their prosecution in all other localities. I his is rather understating than overstating the case. I have considered it, and do now consider it my duty as an officer of the Government to execute the law?, By making an appropriation at all for the prosecution of timber depredations, Congress recognized the principle that the laws in that respect should be executed, but if Congress makes that ap propriation so small as to restrict me to a very limited sphere of action, such an act will be considered as virtually a proclam ation to the timber depredators in all the length and breadth of the country now to go in and make themselves comfortable, as they are aeBiired that the Government I no longer have tne means to inter fere with tnem. The amendment to the bill prohibiting the use of money appropriated for the seizure of any timber cut upon the public lands of the Territories, which is not for export from the territories of the United Stales where the lumber grew, will, in my opinion,, have this efi'i ct. In the territories of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming. Utah and Dakota the indiscriminate deBtiuction of forests will go on as here tofore, without any interference or regu lation upon the part of the Government unless lurther legislation he bad, and 1 am confident that the time is not far distant when the people, especially of the mountainous regions, will look with great regret at their mountains stripped of their forests growth, which, when once destroyed, will never reproduce itself, and remember the enorts made to save it from destruction and disastrous consequences, which inevita bly must follow, which effort has now been defeated. There lis one territory from which an extensive exportation of timber taken from the public lands, especially ship-building timber, has been going on. ihat is the ierntory of Wash ington. Even if this Bmall appropriation now be made, be not abBorbed by other necessities, it would be impossible to use t with any considerable effect to stop the exportation. The Department would not be able to use the money for said purpose unless the intention of the exportation be conclusively Bhown. The difficulty of showing that the intention is apparent, if we are prohibited from using this appropriation in making seizures of lumber cut upon the public land on the spot where it is cut, or tbe lots in booms or in the timber yards of dealers and speculators, and are restricted to Beizurea made where the intent to export is clear; that is to say at the shipping places, it is evident that in placeB with bo many inlets and little harbors as Washington Territory, we can succeed only in very rare in stances. Even with a larger appropria tion, it would be impossible for us, under such restrictions, to prevent the bulk of that illegitimate trade from going aa before, and the stealing of the pub lic timber will therefore, in all probability, be carried on upon a greater scale than before with this encouragement, it is noteworthy that the law prohibiting the taking of timber from the public lands is not repealed by this act. What tbe act really does is to render the Government unable to execute the law, the justice and validity of which has never been questioned until the pres ent time. In my recent report to CongreBB in relation to the efforts made to suppress depredations upon tbe publio lands in ontana, 1 stated that tbe United States went into court as any suitor to recover property wrongfully converted. The right to do bo has been questioned, and in order to show that the statement then made is warranted by the authorities we have followed, I refer to the case of the United States against Cotton, in 11th Howard, page 229, where the Supreme Court of the United State says : Although as sovsreign, the United States may not be Bued, yet as a corporation or body politic they may bring suits to enforce their contracts and protect their property in the State Courts or their own tribunals, administering the same laws. As an owner in almost every State of the United States, they have the same right to have it protected by local laws that other persons have. The manner of proceeding in enforcement is clearly pointed out in sections 914 and 915, Revised Statutes. There can therefore be no question as to the legal authority tinder which the Government has acted in executing the existing laws, and if henceforth the laws are not enforced for want of means, it will not be my fault. I am glad to see that the press of the country appreciate this quesiion, and hi almost unanimously on the side of the law, IMPORTANT POSTAL DICIPION. The FoBtmaster General has issued an order amending the regulation of tbe de partment governing tbe transmission of lirimeu oittr, nuuju i. vury itufiuxiauv in its bearings, inasmuch as it overrules the long established practice in the de partment. Heretofore nothing but business card was permitted upon the wrapper of printed matter. The Poet' master General now has given instructions that any matter in print, which may be transmitted within enclosure, mav also be transmitted at the same rate, if printed upon the wrapper or envelops, lute in cludes business eards, directions for re. turning, and any printed matter on tbe outside ol the wrapper or envelope Postmasters, however, are instructed not to regard the requests for the return of such matter unless stamps to pay return postage are presented. CHARSFS AGAINST COMMISSIONER SPEAR. Charges against Commissioner Spear, of the .Talent uthce, are in no sense the result of any ill feeling between that officer and Secretary Schorl, so far as tbe Uommis sioner is aware. They grew out of a de cision in an interference oase, in which disappointed contestant not only charges incompetency and incapacity upon the Commirsionsr, but also alleges the mutil ation of the record. It is also stated that a well known patent attorney is behind the accusirg party. Commissioner Spear states he bad occasion during the hearing to alter the phraseology of one of his rul' ings in an interlocutory question, but that in doing so he in no Becse changed the force or meaning of the ruling, and that it is upon this the charge of mutilation is brought. TIMBER DEPREDATIONS, Hon. Mania Maginnis. Delegate from Montana, received the following dispatch from Helena, dated March 23 : United States Marshal Wheeler reports five thousand dollars caah collected from seized wood and lumber in Montana, mostly from wood in the hands of laborers, who live by cutting and hauling wood to market. The tax haB advanced lumber only. Consumers have suffered, not tbe saw mill men, as erroneously stated by the Newlan letter to the Sec retary of the Interior. The timber has been used only for domestic purposes, not for speculation. The low price of wood now ia attributable entirely to the remarkably mild winter which has been like autumn weather since October. H. M. Parchen, President Helena Board ot Trade, BOILER 1N8PICTOR APPOINTED Charles M, Ridgeway has been ap pointed Assistant Inspector of Boilers for this district. CRIME AND CASUALT7. A t'apalzed Schooner. San Francisco, March 24 The schooner General Miller, Captain May, belonging to the Alaska Commercial company, sailed from this port February lb. lor Alaska, having as a passenger Colonel Woods, United States Collector of Customs for the Teriitory of Alaska. A day or two ago, the schooner was dis covered bottom up a few miles up the coast and is now being towed in port. Alt on board were undoubtedly lost. Ihe vessel and cargo waB valued at about $50,000. Kelnru of a Damaged sloop of Wnr. New York, March 24. Returned the United States sloop of war Wyoming, J. C. Watson, commander, hence for Havre, on tbe 10:h inst., with goods for the Paris Imposition, When hve hundred miles out it was found the vessel was leaking, and fearing tbe approach of the heavy head winds and an increase of leakage, it was concluded to return to this port. She will probably go on the dry dock for repairs, which can bs completed in two days. The captain has gone to Washington for instructions. Mnrderer Lynched. Wheeling, W. Va , March 24 Train men arriving in this city this morning brought the news of the hanging of John Wallace laat mgbt at .Burton Station, near Littleton, the scene of the horrible mur der committed by Wallace on the 19th inst. Later information confirms the re port and says the lynching waB done at an early hour this morning by tweotyfive masked men, who took Wallace from the officers and hung him to a tree at the edge of the woods. A Murderer Fully Identified. Ppiladelphia, March 24 In the cxee of Hunter, accused for the Armstrong murder, Graham's statement has been further confirmed to-day. Mrs. SpelliBay, the adv from whom the felt hat was purchas ed, was taken to Camden to-day and identi fied Hunter. The lady attendent in the store also identifies Graham as being with Hunter at the time. Ihe proacution say now they have the chain ot evidence complete. BiysiBriouii manppearance or Hon. 4UHU mi, vance. Cincinnati, March 24. It is an nounced that ex-Congressman John L. Vance of Ohio has mysteriously disappeared. He left the Walnut Street House, this city, last Thursday evening, ostensibly to visit some unknown party in Covington, since whioh time no trace can be discovered, although the' police have abored diligently in tbe search, foul play is feared. Bond Bobber Identified. Petesrbubo, Va., March 24. The guilt of the parties arrested yesterday, charged with tbe Young bond robbery, in JNew lork, has been fully established. All the missing bonds and securities were found in their possession. A large amount of United SlateB bonds, believed to have been stolen from other parties, was aBO found in the possession of the robbera. An Old I.ady Murdered by Iter ifaugtiter. Syracuse, N. Y., March 24 Mrs. Lucy L. Day, an old woman, aged eighty, was murdered Saturday, at Cicero, tbie county, by her daughter, a married wo man, aged 4o. ohe stabbed her at the dinner table with a knife, in a quarrel, the result of an old feud. AlleKed Incendiaries Arrested. Pottsville, Pa., March 24. An at tempt was made last evening to fire the office of the Chronicle and Standard, but the fire was discovered by an employe in time to prevent its spreading. IN at Men- nig and Joseph Connor, two men recently discharged from the office, were arreated on suspicion and committed. Burned to Detain. Wheeling. W. Va March 24 At an early hour this morning, John Milan, a driver for John Butterfield, while in toxicated, lost his life by the burning of a stable attached to Butterfield'a malt house, he having gone into the hay-ioft to sleep. Death of Another Tlellm of the JhTag-enta Aocldent. New York, March 24 Richard Lowe, a victim of the Magenta disaster, died at Sing Sing last night, making the tourth death from that accident, Pell from Train of Cars. Middletown. N. Y March 24 John Booney, of San Francisco, was picked op by a freight train this morning half con scious, Saving apparently fallen from tbe Atlantic express. I burch Struck by Lightning-. Cincinnati, March 24 The Church of the Mother of God (Roman Catholic) in Covington, Kentuckv. was struck bv lightning this morning, and damaged to the extent ot ouu. FOREIGN. British Training Ship Cap sizes in a Gale. Between Three Hundred and Four Hundred Lives Lost Rumors of an Alliance Between Russia and Turkey, Tbe Russian People Disappointed with the Treaty. Londok, Maroh 24. The report has just been received here that the British naval training ship Eurydice, with four hundred men on board, has capsized on the south coast of the Isle of Wight. 4 iSecond Diepatah.l Londok, March 24 The Admiral commanding at Portsmouth telegraphs the following particulars received from the coast guard at Ventnor : The Eurydice capsized off Dunnoz Head at half past four olclock this after noon, in a sudden squall. One boy and seaman were saved. Other advices indicate between three hundred and four hundred lives have been lost. The Admiral, on receiving the news of the disaster, immediately dispatched a steamer to the scene of the wreck. - The Eurydice was a training ship for ordinary Beamen, under command of Captain Marcus A. 8. Hare. She was sixth rate, 921 tons, and carried four guna. Probability of a Uusas-Turblab Alli ance. Constantinople, March 24. Count Zichey, the Austrian Ambassador, has postponed his intended departure on a furlough, because of the critical aspect of affairs. TheCzir has not absolutely declined to grsnt tbe concession asked for by Reouf Pasha, but has made hia sssent dependent upon a condition, which is believed to be a Russo-Turkish alliance. It is asserted that Reouf and Oiman Pashas favor such an alliance. There is, however, a strong pro E.iglish party, which opposes it. The Reported Massacres in Thesaaly to be luveatigati'd. AxuKNa, March 24 It ia reported that the women and children massacred by tbe Tuiki in the sacking of the Thesaalian villages of Olympas, Respana, Carea and Ltitochori, number many thousands. Admiral Hornby, at the request of the British representative at Athens, has dis patched a vessel to ascertain the truth of these reports. Beturn of Hainan and Reonf Paabas. Constantinople, March 21. Rsouf Pasha, Osman Pasha and Gen. Ignatief arrived here this evening. They will make a formal and ceremonious entry into the city to-morrow and have an interview with the Sultan. It is not yet known in what capacity General Ignaticfl' returns here. Violent Gale and Snow Throughout England. London, March 24. A violent gale with snow prevailed here to-day and extended throughout England. It was particularly severe at Liverpool. Tbe treaty Fulls Nbortef What Ihe People Expected. St. Petersburg, March 24. The G0I03 declares the treaty of peace falls short of the aspirations of the RueBian peiple. A Premature Report. St. Petersburg, March 24. The Agence Russe says : The statement that Russia has requested Ensland to with draw her fleet from the sea of Marmara is premature. Tbe German Intercut Sot Affected by Ihe Treaty. Berlin, March 24. The North Ger man Gazette says the treaty doeB not affect the German interest. THE SNOW. Snowing and Freexlng. Montreal. March 24. A heavy snow storm has been raging all day,' There is no appearance of ceasing. It is freezing bard. Two Inchcsof snow and Still Falling Buffalo, March 24. About two inches of snow fell here laat night. It is still snowing. Snowing and ntoi uilng. Watertown, N. Y., March 24. Eight inchea of snow has fallen here to day and it ie still storming. Whisky niaiiHllcs. Wheeling. W. Va . March 24. The books of the Internal Revenue office bIiow the quantity of distilled spirits in bonded warehouses the first instant, in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, as follows : Ohio, 1,-412,529 gallons; Indiana, 642,126 gallons, and Illinois, 512.680 gallons. The quan tity in warehouse in Kentucky on the first of February was 6,708 665 gallons. The producing capacity throughout the country on the first of March was 228 265 gallons per day, as compared with 246,539 gallons on the first of March, 1877, and 245 249 gallons on the first of March, 1876. Fire at Heesvllle, New York. Whitehall, N. Y., March 24 Fire at Keeaville this morning destroyed Pres-cott & Weston's Bash, door, blind and furniture establishment, the Methodist Church, a grist mill, plaster mill, and two dwelling houses. Loss $25,000. The loss will be over $50 000. Preston & Weston alone lose $30,000. Ten dwelling houses, a school house, and a store house with 4000 bushels of corn were destroyed, The fire is supposed to be incendiary. Canada Overlaud Railroad Ter-mtnue.San FRAscisco,March 24 A Victoria dispatch says Admiral Dehersey's report as to the best terminus for the Canada overland railroad is published by the Col onist to-day. It condemns the Burrard inlet and Sheena river as harbors and strongly favors tbe adoption of the Bute Inlet route, with Eaquinnalt as the terminus.Church Doors 1 aed Against a minuter. Trentoh, N. J , March 24. The doors of the Clinton Street Methodist Episcopal Church were to day closed against Rev. William H. Pearne, who was appointed its pastor by the recent New Jereey annual Conference. The Church deeire to retain the present pastor. Death or George P. Bowler. Cincinnati, March 24. George P. Bowler, of this city, one of the principal owners of the Kentucky Central railroad, died this morning in Paris, France, of gout at the heart, aged thirtylwo, He leaves a wife and a young son, who were with him in fans, tie had recently re. turned to Paris from Egypt. SUMMARY OF SUNDAY'S NEWS. '' Counterfeits of the new silver dollar have made their appearance in New York. , It ia thought the "bird" on the new silver dollar will be removed and an eagle put in 11a piace. A Washington special to the Cincinnati Enquirer of yesterday says: Governor lorn Young left here to-night for Cincinnati. If his name is sent in next week as successor to Lew Weitzal it need not sur prise tbe tax-payers who walk to that of. bee and pay Government assessments. One thing is certain, and that ia. Young has been assured he can have the offioe if be wants it. An eccentric old woman, known aa Ruth Ann Moss, was lound dead Saturday, in her bouse at East New York. It is believed that she starved herself to death. She owned the house in which she lived, and in her rooms were found two thousand dollars' worth of paintings, and carpets which had not been unrolled. She had stated that she was the widow of the late Judge Roas, of Staten Island, and that he was a millionaire. A. T. Stewart's New York Hotel for women will be opened April 2. The re ception of boarders will take place on the 3d Women who support themselves by daily labor are invited to participate in the benefits of the Home. A limited number of the rooms will be set apart for the UBe of ladies visiting the city on business. The rules and regulations will be such as govern all first class hotels, and board and lodging will cost six dollars per week. Among the Department clerks at Wash ington there is a feeling of insecurity, on account of the evident purpose of Congress to cause a severe retrenchment in all the Departments, by reducing the appropriations. It is probable that many clerks will be discharged before Congress gets over the retrenchment fever, and the salaries reduced of those who remain. In the Fostofiice Department every clerk has' had to make out a complete inventory of all work done during the month of Esb-ruary, with a view to a possible reduction of force and pay. A Washington special to the Commer cial says: The House committee on Claims has agreed to a bill allowing $4016 to John Zimstein. of Cincinnati, for sutler's stores taken by Sherman's army wnen tbe latter were tired and hungry, and without rations. Ex Governor Tom Young endeavored to induce the committee to allow interest on this amount, but although Buch interest would have swollen the sum to only onehalf of the $13,000, which it was proved had been lost by Zimstein, the committee declined to secede, suggesting to the claimant that hall a I oat u better than no bread." General Banks and Mr. S. S Cox have resolutions prepared, to be introduced in the House on Monday, definitely settling the question of the hours of labor for Government work, and both will insist that the proper and legal interpretation of the law of eight hours means eight hours. and that no head of a Department has a right to put any other construction on it. These resolutions will insist upon a literal construction of the act, and will censure the Secretary of the Navy for taking a different view of the case in his recent order requiring tbe employes of that De partment who are engaged as mechanics and laborers to work ten hours. The eudden death, Saturday, of apo plexy, of Hon. John Allison, Register of tbe United States Treasury, coming so close upon the similar demise of the late Comptroller Taylor, has cast a gloom upon tbe omcials of the Ireasury Department, by whom both of the deceased were highly esteemed. UnBeemlv haBte is evinced by outsiders to press their peti tions lor the vacant otiice. It is believed, however, that in this instance the civil service rules will be adhered to, and the position tilled by promotion. William P. Tilcomb, of Massachusetts, the Assist ant Register, is next in actual line of promotion, but Major Power, who was form erly Chief Clerk under Mr. Allison, and promoted by Secretary Bristow to his present position as chief of the important Division of Warrants, has reason to ex pect that he will be advanced to the- va cant Registership, the salary of which is $4000, $1250 more than the salary now received by him. Mr. Allison was appointed in April, 1869, and was Bixtysix years of sga. He was a native of Bolivar, Pennsylvania, whither his remains were taken Saturday evening. Mr. Allison was formerly a Representative in Congress, and was a Republican candidate for United States Senator. A New Orleans special to the Cincin nati Commercial of yesterday says : Attorney General Ojden has filed application for rehearing before the Supreme Court, of which the Btrong point and bright particular thought is the following: lake Ihe document under discussion and suppose that on its face it should not appear to be a record, would not proof that it has been offered and received in evidence in a court of justice make it at once a public record, and constitute its alteration a crime under the statute?" The whole application is based upon this idiotic argument, which is convulsing tbe legal profession here with laughter, for the most obtuse intellect must perceive that inasmuch as the alleged alteration, if made at all, had been made before the ac ceptance of thedocument as legal evidence, any subsequent transformation of the document into a public record, couldn't by any process of reasoning constitute that alteration as criminal which was made before the document became of public record. Everybody, of course, knows that Ogden's brief is working only for political tffdct, but common sense should at least have marked the diction of the application. No one rezards it likely that tbe Court will cons'der the application at all. Olili, The Cambridge Republicans have nom inated Captain W. H. Farrar for Mayor. W. B. Hain, of Circleville, is under arrest on a charge of bastardy preferred Dy nose rotter. The corner stone of the new Lutheran Church, near New Philadelphia, was laid on the 23d with appropriate ceremonies. The Republicans of Urbana have renominated C. H. Ganson for Mayor, and George M. Russell for Infirmary Director. Tuesday is the eleventh anniversary of tbe Soldiers' Home, at Dayton. It will be observed with appropriate ceremonies, A four year old son of Frank Cheshire, of Logan, was perhaps fatally injured on the 231, by being kicked in the forehead by a horse. George Glenn, charged with burglary, at Cleveland, and who escaped some ten days ago, has been retnrned, he having peen round in rulaski county, Indiana, Frederick Dreyer, of Limaville, Stark county, was killed on the 18th inst by the accidental discharge of a carbine, with which he was engaged in shooting musk-rats.The following plavers have been par- tiallyor wholly engaged by Ihe Cleveland case am uiub tor the ensuing seuson : William Btrnie, of Brooklyn, catcher; James L. Clinton, late of the Louisvilles, Sitcher; John Coyne, of Elizabeth, New ersey, change catcher; Warren Laird, of Lexington, first base; Steve Wolford, of Springfield. Ohio, third base: Lch. Mask- r'ey, of Illinois, short stop; McCarthy, of but, uiu .cries, second case; jonn r . unicx, of Cleveland, field, and W. T. Dickerman, 01 Lawrence, Kansas, held. Several others are talked of. On the 18th a bridge at Poland. Ma honing county, over which a house was being moved, gave way, and precipitated sixteen men and boys into the water below. Henry Moherman was fearfully mang'ed and killed, Mr.' Robinson had his arm and collar bone broken and spine injured and was not expected to live; a horse had two legs broken and was killed to relieve its misery. Oae arch of the bridge was left standing in apparently as gocd condition as ever. The accident was caused by the lunge of the horse. The bridge did not break, but twisted over sideways. A Newark special of Saturday, the 23d, contains the following: The following are tbe material facts in reference to the pair of mysterious infants found by the good Fathers of St. Joseph's College, near Somerset : On the 5th of December Lucy Tanner commenced proceedings in bastardy, before E quire Anderson, against William Hannon, who was bound over to court in the sum of $40. On the 14th of March Miss Lucy became the mother of twins, which disappeared early the present week, and naturally led to suspicion of foul play, bringing about the apprehension of tbe reputed father, and confession as to the disposition made of the waifs. The babies were labeled, when found, with tbe important if true information that their sire was a gentleman of wealth, position and rank, who would amply reward the finders for care and trouble. Foreign. , m , . Fifty thousand Turkish troops are now encamped in the plain of Bayukdere, and here are- nfty battaliona in the Jinen de- fending Constantinople. O'Leary, the American champion, is the winner of the International Walking Match, just completed at London, roring oil) miles to bis highest opponent's oOO. The widow of Rossini, the celebrated n.ueical composer of France, is dead. It is understood she has bequeathed a fortune inherited from Rossini to the Asy lum for Aged Disabled Singers. The Austrian delegation referred to the Government a petition to take steps, by an international understanding, for dis infecting late battle fields, and arresting the danger which threatens the health of Europe. The landing of a force on the Asiatic side of the sea of Marmora has unquestionably been considered by the British Government. Railway material, to be laid on a parallel line with the Dardanelles, hs been purchased. The Sanitary Commission have arrived at Erzroum from Tiflis. They found 20,000 corpses two feet under ground, frozen, but not decomposed. The Commission are deliberating whether to cremate the corpses or use quick lime. A Berlin dispatch says: Herr Hofmann has declined the Ministry of Finance. It is said that Herr Hobrecht, Chief Burgomaster of Berlin, haa accepted. The Lower House haB begun the debate upon the Bnpplementary estimates required for the organic changeB in the Ministry. Bismsrck vigorously supported the measure, and declared that unless a different administration of railways ie instituted, be will not remain in power. The debate adjourned until Wednesday. The British Cabinet requires a declara tion from Russia that the communication of the instrument of peace to the powerB is equivalent to its formal presentation to theCongrees. The Russian Cabinet, however, considers that by making the above mentioned communication it has fulfilled international duties, and is less inclined to agree to a special presentation of the treaty to the Congress, inasmuch as by making known all the conditions of peace, it has afforded each power an opportunity of making separate provieions of the treaty the subject of European deliberation. An understanding upon this point has not yet been reached. Until it is de cided the fate of the Congress is uncer tain. The London Times, in an editorial, says: Ihe treaty purposes tbe creation ot a new estate in the Hainan rentoeuia, which would dwarf all others, and which, supported by external influence, would inevitably strangle all other interests. New Bulgaria would extend considerably beyond the limits in which the Slavonic population is preponderant. Wherever the presumed limits, such preponderances are not coincident with good geographical boundary. The boundary line has been pushed forward to the injury of other populations and Stales. The result is that the new Principality would occupy the whole central maBS of the peninBula, forming a State in comparison with which Servia and Montenegro would be insignificant, and reducing the remaining possessions of Turkey to absurdity. Europe cannot avoid very grave doubts whether such an arrangement would be either just or exempt from danger of great future disturbances. A Knnslau Glbralter. 8in;e 1704 England has had her guns on that Spanish rock that commands the Btraits and entrance into the Mediterranean, and now Russia is said to covet, on the upper Bonphorm, an equal "coign of vanteg," for her ambition. The small naval station at Belcos, and the possession of the Giant Mountain, just back of the village, would enable its holders to effectually command the Boaphorus as far as Scutari, and close it against all comers. The "question of the Straits" is not a commercial one, the navigation being perfectly free to all merchantmen, a small sum beirg collected for the light house service from passing sbipa. As a war question, when it is remembered that the great empire of Russia, that stretches across thirty degrees of latitude, is in the position of the historic starling, and "can not get out," except by way of the land-locked and early frozen Baltic, with her ships of war, one of the three solutions of the matter is of imminent importance. As stated by a correspondent of the New York Tribune, the several proposals are as follows : "(1) No ships of war to pass the Straits except as specified by treaty; or (2) ships of war belonging to the nations which border the seas to which the Straita are the only access to pass he Straits at will, but no other war Bhips to do so under any circumstances; or (3) all ships of war to pass the Straits freely. "The first solution is the one England desires, and is the arrangement that has held good up to the present time; it pro teots Russia from attack unless Turkey is at war with her. The second is what Russia desires and Ebgland dreads, since it would allow KiiSBia to send lleets irom the Black Sea to wage war upon any Mediterranean power, with absolute freedom from danger to herself so long as she was at peace with Turkey. The third solu tion seems to be the only just one, and accords with the position which the United States takeson the question. But all the Powers seem equally opposed to absolute freedom of the Straits, and Rus sia more so than any other." M. A. 87 W EST BROAD STR23XIT. Vanderbllt and ClaUln. New York World, Maroh 21.1 Buckman Claflin testified that he came to this city in 1868 and was the father of Tennie 0, Claflin; he became acquainted with Commodore Vanderbilt in the spring of 1869; at this time his daughter was twentyone or twentytwo years old Mr. Lord said that he offered to prove that this witness knew of a contract of marriage between Commodore Vanderbilt and Miss Tennie C. Claflin, and that the Commodore told the witness he intended to marry her and wanted tbe approval of her parents. Mr. Clinton To be consistent I have got to make an objection; otherwise I should be glad to make an exception in this case. The Surrogate I exclude It. Mias Clsllin does not appear in this case to be .. .5.... . .. " ' . uu 1 buexe 10 uuiuuiK lu euuw mai a marriage ;,k ... f . , , "1 dU " I' Tt TLi intenHflJ tn ma. h 'it nnH ahft f. . he was inBane or of weak mind. Mr. Lord Not insane, of course, but of weak mind, perhaps, when the great dis parity of age is conBidered. I offer to Bhow that his mind was in such a state at this time that he offered himself to almost every marriageable woman, which we claim tended to show weakness of mind; that although he rolled along in his railroad groove by mere force of habit, yet in all other respects he was pasBing into his Becond childhood. The offer was excluded. O Do you recollect going with vour daughter to the Commodore's after bis second marriage? Mr. Clinton ohjsoted. Mr. Lord I propose to Bhow that he went there with his wife and daughter and found there Commodore Vanderbilt and Mra. Vanderbilt, and that all the per sons named left the hall where they were and went to some other room, leaving Mr. Claflin in the hall, and that the Com modore came back with his arm around Miss Claflin in the presence of his wife. and under those circumBtanoes kissed her, and that Mrs. Vanderbilt made no re-monstrance or sign of dissent, and that he also eaid to Miss Claflin, "You might have been Mrs. Vanderbilt." The offer was excluded, A Good Book-Keeper. San Antoalo (Tex.) Expresa. We met "Old Mose" yesterday, and no ticed that there was a dark cloud hover ing over his despondent brow. "Whals the matter, Under we asked. He shook hie head as if he had nothing left to live for, and said : I'se in a peck of trouble, va Lord knows where die heah is gwine to end. I'se done gib it up. "What is the trouble about I After several sighs that seemed to come up from the bottom of his boots, he ex plained that he was Secretary of the local colored lodge of Free Masons; that he was the custodian of the booke; that for keeping the books he was paid by the lodge $10 a month; that every Saturday night, alter the lodge was over, he carried the books home and turned them over to the "ole 'ooman, Aunt Dinah," for safekeeping, and she stowed them away in her trunk, "along wid her 'fishal flowers, and fedders, and finery, and sich." He also said that he had forgotien to mention to Aunt Dinah that he was receiving $10 a month for keeping the books, and he had uniformly forgotten to turn over to her the aforesaid $10, but had squandered the same for his own little personal expenses; that Borne unknown demon had informed Dinah that Old Moso was getting $10 for keeping the books, and consequently, when he remarked the other evening that it was time for him to go to the lodge, and requested her to hand him out the books, instead of doing so she sat down on the trunk, and positively refused to turn over the documents until he had paid over tbe $10. When he told her the $10 were hia'n for keeping the books, she retorted: "Who's been keepin' dem ar books? Hasn't I been keepin' de books in de trunk slide time? Han' out dem funds wat's comin' to me for keepin' de books " What did you tell her, Mose?" 'I tole her I wanted dem books to keep de minite in, dat she didn't know how to keep de books, but she 'lowed she was gwine to show me she knowed how to keep de books, and foah God I Bbe is a keepin' 'em. De lodge has pinted a committee to investigate my accounts, and darahe is a equattin' on de trunk holdin' out her ban' forde $tu i'se done spent. Doesn't yer know somebody who wants $10 wuff of whitewashing done in ad vance?" The best part of the foregoing is that it is baaed on facts. Farmer Garflnld. Dr. Norton, of Seneca county, haa introduced a bill in the House to gerrymander the State I Under the bill as introduced Mahoning is put into the Nine teenth district and Portage is left out. Under this management Garfield, if he continues in CongreSB, would have to rep resent another constituency. xmngslomn Vxndxeator. This is a mistake. General Garfield lives in Lake county. He moved from Portage more than a year ago, and ie now a farmer in Mentor township. His place is within gun-shot of the Lake Shore railroad, and raises as good corn and potatoes as any man in that section. Vlvvelana Leader. A Mlaalaalppt Adder on Drinks. Vlcktburg Herald. 1 It iB estimated that 3 500.000 tons of ice will be cut in Maine this winter. Now, allowing a quarter of a pound of ice for a mint julep, and making allowance lor those who don't drink, the rest of the people in Maine can have about fortynine drinks each. Saying that seven drinks will make a man feel tolerably happy, out of fortynine drinks he oan manage to have seven drunks, and one man drunk seven times is, of course, equal to seven drunken men; so the whole ice crop will yield an aggregate of 2,100,000 drunken men. Suppose that from every ten of those who get drunk Beven times, one ban the jim jams, 210,000 men will be thus ihTcted about onetbird of the total population of the State) If each of these unfortunate men eeea 1000 snakes, there will be 2-0,. 000,000 snakes seen, and allowing two snakes to a boot, they will fill 52,500,000 pairs, which insures briak work in the shoe shops. PRITCHARD &, CO. Are receiving dailr fe'h ooasla-ninents uf 1--BU 1 T4, APPLE 8! ALBO Sweet Potatoes, Beans, Peas & General Produce. Consignments Solicited. New Advertisements. ROAD JNOTICE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A PE-Tl HON will be preseuted to the Commissioners ot FraakliD county, at their next, session, April 27th, A.D 1878, praying tor the location or establishing of a couuty road ou the following line, to-wit: Beginning at an angle in the Hard road on the Hoe between land owned by Samuel Hard on the north and Isaac Yobam on the south, in Parry township; thence on said line eaatnardly about 82 pole, to the east line of Perry township; alao, west line of Sharon township; also, b.iug the weal line of John Wilson's Und ; Ihenca on the township line between the lands ol said Wilson and Hard, northwaidiy about ten Jioiea to the line between said Wilson and 8. Andrus; thence with the line between Wilson and anurua, eat-wardly to the county rod, known as the River road ; being in. first road west of Olentanjiy river. Also, aBking for the vacation of said old road from the angie it entioned in said p-lition; thence south to the line betwe.n Aadrtii aod Yokam; thebc. east to the township line; th.nce south to the road kn-jwa as Proprietors road, running eait to the River road. March 23, A. 1). 1S7S. mr'ii dlt w3t c Don't Read Tlx i ! I PILES Unfit BT ME IN Id TO SO DAYS NO PAY UNTILCURKD. Our. WARRANT. ED EVERY T1MB. No cutting; no ligatiiig; no - auicioo id taae. 'reatment almost 1'Alw-LEd. Send for Circulars, mr call on me at UNI I'ED STATES HOTEL. Colifmlms. Ohin. .1 following dates, via: On Fridays, March 29, April iz and ua, May 1U and 24, June 7 and 21. Consultation Free. A. W. BK1NKEBHOKF, mr25 eow 3m bpecialiat.Upor Sandusky, O. Notice to Contractors. ' EALED PKOP03ALS WILL BE RECEIV- EO until Friday noon. March 2a. 187a. for grading, clearing and grtlbb ng the street np- o' aite Agricultural College, on Henry M. Neil's property. 'the specifications oan be seen at any time at the office of J N. Beem.r, Civil Enuiueer, Mit-liofl Block, 117 North High St. Eighly par cent in caBh every two weeks on estimate and the btlaace on the completion of itm wura accoraing to contract. mrzo ot HHi-MKYM.Ke.lL. Jacob R. McQarbt. Cub. W. Kami. McGAllRY & HARK, ATTORNEYS And OfltlHSELOKS.AT.LAW, Rooms 7 and 8, Esplanade Building, a. E. ror. Flftll and Walnut Bia, mr26 1taw6mm Ciuciuuaii, O. UANTK ft A LIVE MAN in .very county It nil I tu m tii, u. 8.. lo m-nufacturo Bnf sell a -tapls artrjle lust ented. Exclusive right aiven. Liberal terms. Laige pro&ta Small capital. mr25 eod Im B. MORBI3, Chicngo, III . ABBY S. PUTNAM'S ES TATE, NOTICE ia hereby given that the undersisne't haa been appointed and dutv Qualified aa Execuior of the estate of Abbv S. Putnam, late ol Franklin county, O., deceased. VAVIU a rUIWAM. Maroh 23, 1878. mr26 Haw 3w Ihe Vegetable Garden. The size of a garden, where there is plenty of land to appropriate to it, should be in accordance to the wants of the family in the way of vegetables and fruit. rroperiy lam out and plols set apart for each crop, it is surprising what a deal of stun can ne ootatned from tbe space appropriated. Let us set down the different vegetables that should be provided for a family say of eight persons: 1. Eirly and later peas, to afford a daily supply for from four to six weeks. 2. An onion bed of the white variety. 3. Beets. 4. Lettuce sown in borders and set out from plants forced in hotbeds (every garden should have three little hotbeda for toma toes, egg and cabbage plants, leaving room for enough lettuce plante). 5. A small bed of Horn carrots. 6. Half a dczan stools of rhubarb for early pies and stewing, 7. Two small beds of bush beans, to be planted at intervals, 8. From forty to fifty bills of Lima bear.B. 9. The sweet corn crop. This is very important, and say twenty hills should be planted every ten or twelve days up to July, which will furnish a supply until frost intervenes in October. But the Lima beans and sweet corn should not be included in the garden space; ground should be set apart for them outside, as there are tew gardens 01 moderate sizj that will admit of them. There are other vegetables, such as radishes, spinach, squashes, etc , that will of course receive attention. Of course, alao, when the period arrives, tomatoes, egg plants, etc , will be duly set out. All tbe foregoing, except liima beans and corn, sufficient for eight persons, can be included in a garden of moderate aizs, such as the owner of farm land should provide, What Tbej Hmoue In Germanj. Pall Mall Gaaette. In connection with Prince Bismarck's tobacco project, a celebrated botanist. Herr Schlieden, has published eome sta tistics in regard to the manufacture and sale of cigars in Germany. It appears that in Ihuringia alone about one hundred and fifty tons of beetroot leaves are annually "transformed into tobacco." in Magdeburg and the Palatinate the cigar-makers employ lsiga quantities not only of beetroot leaves, but also of the leaves of endive, and even of the potato plant, The cigars sold in Germany as coming from Vevey, at a price ol Irom one mark to one mark and a half a hundred, do not, according to Herr Schlieden, contain any tobacco, "ex cept that made with cabbage or turnip leaves which bad neen deprived of their specific odor by various manipulations, and eub'tquently steeped for tome time in extract of tobacco." Herr Schlieden adds, with an air of conscious pride, "that in no country in the world are cigars sold at so cheap a rate as in Germany." Weekly List of Patents. The following Ohio natnts were nassed to Issue by ike United States Patent Office March 12. 1878. and will be illustrated and officially announced in No. 11 of he Official Ixezette, wnica win no issued March 2U,187B: O. O. Tittle, -Cincinnati, flour and meal scoop, measure and sieve. V. Black, Cincinnati, devices tor handling hogsheads of tobacco. A. Henishel, Cincinnati, sofa bedsteads. 8. T. Wellman, Cleveland, rolls for rolling plate metal, F. E. Cudell, Cleveland, sewer gas traps. F. E. Cudell, Cleveland, stove evaporators. J, McOounell, Cleveland, toy pistols, u. ri s K. H.oner, wiretts-ville, combined flour chest, sifter and sate. A. Kesart, Jennings township, gates J Miller, Canton, barvister rakes. T M. Drint-nail, Medina, lamp burners. N, B. Acbeson, Youngatown, nut locks. W. L. Merrin, Fredericktown, organ reed. W. J. Way, Berlin Height', Sisb holders R Uhrich, TJricksville, eiplt jus. ) 11 Fostor, Delaware, wind engines.